Lyr Req: Mayor of Bayswater's Daughter

Subject: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST,Heely
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 07:15 PM

My cousin is looking for the lyrics to a song with these words. Any clue? Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Amos
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 07:20 PM

The Mayor of Bayswater
He had a pretty daughter
And the hair on her dicky-di-do
Hung down to her knees
A red one, a white one
And one wi' a bit o' shite on
And the hair on her dicky-di-do
Hung down to her knees.

Learned from an old seagoing mate of mine, who was an engineer on a civilian sea-going submarine, of all things.

A

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Amos
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 07:22 PM

Actually it is in the DT, here, under the title of MAYOR OF BAYSWATER'S DAUGHTER.

A

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 07:38 PM

Can't remember where Curmudgeon got it -- back in the mists of prehistory.

Can't keep a straight face, of course, when hearing "The Ashgrove".

Linn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 08:02 PM

Perhaps I should post the other verses that I learned in the R A F !!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 08:31 PM

The first time I heard it..(bellowed by a bunch of guys at 2AM after a singaround)..I was captivated...the 2nd time, I was amused....the 3rd time, I listened to all the words, and was chagrined at how awkward & silly they got after 2-3 verses. The verses are mostly an excuse to do the chorus 8-10 times...and the chorus is rather clever.

(Note...this is NOT a wish for it to be cleaned up...just made as clever as it is naughty)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST,Heely
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 09:54 PM

Thanks Guys. We wanted it to sing after our Hogmanay celebration in Portsmouth, Virginia USA.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 09:55 PM

LEADFINGERS

PLEASE..Do, indeed, post the RAF verison

Consult the Rugby Songs/MonkeyBoy thread to determine if they are not already posted

Please, when posting, note the approxamate DATE/ERA, LOCATION (gps not necessary) CIRCUMSTANCE for the verses you encountered....

INFACT....even if the verses are already posted....please note the location, time period you first encountered them.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 11:18 AM

This ditty was also one favored by my old mentor Dennis Puleston of Long Island, New York. I do have a recording of it from one of his bawdy song parties in the late 1950's.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:07 PM

Dennis, The Savior of the Long Island Osprey? Bawdy? NEVER!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:16 PM

Guest-

Exactly!

One of Dennis's lasting memorials is the Osprey website where you can view the nesting activities of the resident pair of ospreys: Click here for website

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 02:28 PM

Lower Deck version.....


She came from Glamorgan
With a cunt like a barrel organ
and the hairs on her dicky dido
hang down to her knees
one black one one white one
and one with a little shite on
and one with a fairy light on
to see in the dark

She married an Italian
with balls like a fucking stallion
and the etc:


They lived in a lighthouse
that stank like a fucking shitehouse
and the etc:


She died when she was ninety
with spunk dripping from her nightie
and the etc:

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Mo the caller
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 01:04 PM

Well,I write this looking up at those words and down at an ad for "Virgin Music Downloads"!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: eddie1
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 01:27 PM

I seem to remember a film where this was used as an ongoing music thread. I think, and in view of the last post it seems unbelievable, it was "The Virgin Soldiers"!

Eddie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 05:06 PM

I've held it,
I've felt it
I've knelt down and smelled it
And the etc etc

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 09:40 PM

I've felt it, I've seen it,
I've been in between it
And the hairs, etc.

I've see it, I've felt it,
It's just like a pice of velvet,
And the hairs, etc.

'Twould take a coal miner
To find her vagina,
And the hairs, etc.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST,Granny
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 05:06 PM

If she was my daughter
I'd have them cut shorter
and the hairs...etc

I've also heard an alternative last line, thus:

And the hairs on her dickie dido
Stuck out like barbed wire.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Jim Lad
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 03:28 AM

She married a banker
With a prick like a .... Tanker
And the hairs on etc.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Jim Lad
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 03:32 AM

She married a broker
With a prick like a ..... poker

It's all coming back to me. Argh!
It's a Welsh Rugby Song.
Rugby Albums are not too difficult to find.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 09:37 AM

The Bayswater reference had dropped away by the time the song reached the US, perhaps no longer ago than 70 years or so. (It doesn't seem to have an older tradition in America.)

We 1950s chubbers (campers, hikers, climbers, singers) knew it as "The Hairs on her Dicky Di Do," the title under which Cray reports it in The Erotic Muse

Though the standard tune, even in the US as far as I can tell, is indeed the Ash Grove ... so pretty ...

We used to sing it in cabins along the Appalachian Trail to the (much less elegant) tune of Ach Du Lieber Augustin. For what it's worth, using that tune gives the song a certain ... ineffable ... je ne sais quoi. Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 09:46 AM

There's also the version:
"One red one, one white one,
And one with a bit o' shite on..."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 09:50 AM

(The Bayswater reference reference was quite prominent in the group where I first heard it....members of that group included several of The Boarding Party (before the Boarding Party existed)...plus some Wash DC area locals who had the likes of Joe Hickerson for ummmm...'inspiration'. Sue Mathieu comes to mind....)

It is interesting to see some new & revised verses...it needed them.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Lighter
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 12:32 PM

A verse or two of the song can be heard sung to teh tune of "The Ash Grove" in the film "Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall" (1972), based on Spike Milligan's book. Spike holds down a small role as his own father.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: eddie1
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 03:21 PM

Lighter

You're right, I was wrong re the film. It was indeed "Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall"
Put it down to me having a CRAFT moment (Can't remember a f***ing thing!)

Eddie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Hrothgar
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 04:26 AM

The chorus should definitely be sung in three parts.

Part 1 sings the verse over.

Part 2 sings
"and the hairs on her dicky dido,
the hairs on her dicky dido,
the hairs on her dicky dido,
hang down to her knees."

Part 3 sings
"one black one, one white one
and one with a fairy light on,
the hairs on her dicky dido,
hang down to her knees."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Ross
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 05:57 AM

When I was at school, everyone used to say it was illegal in hushed tones

It was still a changing room favourite though

Is it about wombles?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 06:20 PM

Remember it from the Rugger buggers singing it after various matches when I was at med school in the 60's!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Schantieman
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 05:42 PM

We sang it on the bus going to and from school Rugby matches in the early 70s. I was onr of the leadersm but I can't recall any verses other than those quoted above.

Steve

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 08:47 PM

A propos of Dame Shirley Porter & the Westminster 'Homes for Votes' scandal:

The Mayor of Westminister
Don't like voters sinister
So she paid lots of guineas ter
Make them move away:

And the fur,
And the fur,
And the fur on her Mayoral garments hung down to her knees:
One blue one, one blue one, if you vote red she'll get a new one
But the bold Distict Auditor spotted her wheeze.

Now if you will vote Tory
You can have a flat on any storey
And live here in glory
Because you can pay;
But if you ain't a right'un
You can go and live in bloody Brighton
In a hotel or boarding house
So be on your way.

The auditor's damned her
With admirable candour
And the word 'gerrymander'
Is linked to her name;
So rich old Dame Shirley's
Been caught by the short and curlies
And it could cost her dearly - oh, gosh what a shame!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 08:55 PM

Sorry. First verse in full should have been:

The Mayor of Westminister
Don't like voters sinister
So she paid lots of guineas ter
Make them move away:
For Dame Shirley Porter
Is a Tory supporter
And thinks everybody oughter
Become one to stay.

And the fur, etc.

Valmai

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: GUEST,corey_2324
Date: 04 Feb 07 - 05:27 AM

can sum 1 tell me the name and artist of this song
or tell me where i can download it from???

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 07 - 03:05 PM

It is not something that exactly HAS an 'artist' attached to it, or gets recorded. It is just one of those things that gets traded and sung. Some one would have to record themselves singing it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The hair of her dicky di do
From: bubblyrat
Date: 04 Feb 07 - 06:16 PM

The problem arises if you actually have "The Ash Grove " in your repertoire, as Anniecat & I do, as indeed do others. A couple of years ago,I was at the Upton on Severn festival,& Pattie Smith & Ned Clamp were doing one of their own songs,where Pattie does ' Ash Grove' as a concertina solo half way through. After a few bars,of course , all the local piss-heads in the pub started singing the "dicky -di-do " stuff, which rather spoilt things !! But that"s folk,I guess !!